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[CortJstr]

Every time my roommate has guests over she always has to replenish my soda stock. She's always legitimately surprised that her guests would rather drink my cold Pepsis than her warm Cokes.

[linnea]

When we remodeled the kitchen we got a fridge with a filtered water dispenser inside. I insisted that this was a needless complication but everyone said I would come to love it. The water that comes out is ice cold. As it turns out, 90% of the year, I drink the room temperature water out of the Brita pitcher on the countertop instead.

Someday soon, I will have a fridge that dispenses ice cold, filtered water. That is awesome.

Also, yes jaydub, I also complain when I get a movie theater bev that's 99% ice and 1% soda. However, when I pour myself a drink I want as much ice as possible. I'll accept the continual refills at home in exchange for icy cold goodness. I have noticed that ice is a pretty important issue when it comes to drinks. My brother in law, for example, got offended when I started mixing rum & cokes for everybody with my customary amount of ice. He only wants 2 ice cubes in his drink, ever.

[KeithHernandez]

I haven't drank in at least 5 months, but i remember that there is a huge difference between drinks and drinks, you know.

I agree completely with your home/out ice strategy, but when it comes to liquor or mixed drinks 2-3 ice cubes max.

[theinevitable]

sometimes when I drink mixed drinks I overdo it on the ice, as a way of watering it down... and then slowly use less and less ice over time to ease myself into drinking big-boy drinks.

I find that gin and tonic, though, just needs a lot of ice to taste right, and be cold enough.


ice water though, that is some good shit. yeahhh.

[Choop]

when i've gone a few days without a coke, i pop the can and guzzle down about a third of it, and i cry a little.

[dejavroom]

That is supposedly how tea was discovered. The Emperor of China was having a walk around his garden with a cup of hot water, and a tea leaf dropped into his cup, and instead of pouring out the now-brown water, he decided to drink it anyway. Good man.

I have never got into the habit of tea, although I take it here and there, and support it aesthetically. Reading Pearl S. Buck's "The Good Earth" (by the way, stop what you're doing and go read it now) I was made aware that to the poor peasants of China, "tea" meant hot boiled water with (few, few) leaves thrown into it. When the young Wang Lung throws one or two fuck*ng LEAVES too many into his bowl, his father scolds him saying someting like "What, you impudent fool, do you think you are rich?". An eye-opener (did you see what I did here), if nothing else...

Apparently the bedouins are fond of hot water, too? Like, you would think they would prefer some ICE COLD WATER, but they drink it hot so as to equalize their inner temperature with the outer? Bobby, where the fuck are you?

BTW: For the next TOUAMBIEs, a suggest a new category: "best thread out of the thinnest of premises"...

[theinevitable]

BTW: For the next TOUAMBIEs, a suggest a new category: "best thread out of the thinnest of premises"...

Best tea with the fewest leaves.

everyone on both sides of my family are tea drinkers, and I didn't realize that this is rare until college. People act like this means I am from another planet.
Actually it's just a thing where like, south americans like tea, and irish people like tea, and they continued drinking tea when they moved here.

now I am trying to think about whether it is a stereotype that these groups drink tea. maybe I am making up a fake stereotype to justify what I know, which is that my family members all drink tea and not coffee.

I know my grandparents still have Tea Time and invite people over and stuff, so it is definitely a Chilean thing to drink tea.

[Choop]

yerba maté is super popular in south america, i wish i could find some good maté; up here in atlanta. i would drink that instead of coffee and coke.

[jaydub]

If you're in Atlanta, you're probably legally required to drink Coke.

[Choop]

let's just say i don't go to the rare places that serve pepsi

[dejavroom]

Down here we have a "Pepsi Twist" which is pretty good. But regular Pepsi is hella crass here for some reason.

[KeithHernandez]

No, that is just Pepsi.

[pmcd9]

let's just say i don't go to the rare places that serve pepsi

Is there a coke mafia that enforces this?

[linnea]

yerba maté is super popular in south america, i wish i could find some good maté; up here in atlanta. i would drink that instead of coffee and coke.

See if you can find a south american or Latino grocery store in Atlanta. They might have some in bulk that you can buy. They probably have bombillas too, but if you can't find them they are sold at Whole Foods too. Or you could just buy a teaball and brew it like that. You can also make yerba mate shots with an espresso machine.

The best and cheapest way if you don't have a grocer around is to order yerba mate on the internets. I keep planning to do it...our grocery store here sells a box of 25 yerba mate teabags for $8.99. I buy them anyway.

[Choop]

then i am going to whole foods on payday.